bits and pieces

2000-10-03 Thread mcclosk
Does anyone know of any issues installing potato on a system with these components: . Asus K7V motherboard with an Athlon 800mhz processor . Matrox Millennium G400 (16MB video ram) . Western Digital 15.3G 7200 RPM hard drive . Futura 17in Monitor, 1280x1024 resolution . Toshiba CDRW/DVD

Re: OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Leone
-- Original Message -- From: will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 20:45:18 -0500 >On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 07:53:02PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: >> How about an SWT 8080 with 16K (circa 1977) as I recall. >> Those were that days of CP/M, befo

device or resource busy

2000-10-03 Thread Pat Mahoney
Ok, freeamp crashed with the audio device open (/dev/dsp). Nothing can use the device. fuser and lsof show nothing active on /dev/dsp. No lock files in /var/lock/. I can't rmmod the sound modules because they're "in use". I rm'd /dev/dsp and mknod'd it but still nothing. The sound modules won

Re: Help with mouse - newbie

2000-10-03 Thread Nate Amsden
Casey Henderson wrote: > > Hello, > Thank you so much for the help! I was able to install vim, and it > works great. I don't know why vi doesn't work. I don't believe there > were any problems installing the base system, and we used it during the > install to set up X, and then it seems to hav

exim/mutt config test

2000-10-03 Thread scott worley
Hi All, Hope i don't offend anyone too much but i'm trying to get exim/mutt configured correctly. scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ess1868

2000-10-03 Thread u860321 phys
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Wayne Sitton wrote: > I have a PIII 500mhz. with a voodoo3, 128 meg of ram, and an ess1868 > soundcard. > I've got everything working fine except the soundcard. So first, is that > sound card linux compatible? when I tried to load a sound module during the > installation, I

Re: Help with mouse - newbie

2000-10-03 Thread Casey Henderson
Hello, Thank you so much for the help! I was able to install vim, and it works great. I don't know why vi doesn't work. I don't believe there were any problems installing the base system, and we used it during the install to set up X, and then it seems to have just vanished. Another weird thin

Re: newbie xdm and gnome problems

2000-10-03 Thread Nate Amsden
there are other ways but the way i do it is rm /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm next time u reboot xdm will not load. nate Ray Percival wrote: > > I also would like to know how to make it boot to a console instead of xdm. I > know I can switch to a console but like, RH, is there anywhy to boot straight > t

Re: Help with mouse - newbie

2000-10-03 Thread Nate Amsden
Casey Henderson wrote: > > Hello, > I'm a new Debian user. I have used Redhat for quite a long time and > I just switched over to Debian. I'm excited about learning all its > features (particularly the cool package management program). A friend > helped me install Debian 2.2 (potato) and we g

Re: Recompiling the same kernel

2000-10-03 Thread Mike
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 04-Oct-2000 Joel Dinel wrote: > > What precautions / tips would you guys (and girls) give to me if I want to > > recompile 2.2.17 and cut down a lot of stuff ? Last time I did so, I backed > > up the modules and system-map (or something like that). > > > > as lo

Help with mouse - newbie

2000-10-03 Thread Casey Henderson
Hello, I'm a new Debian user. I have used Redhat for quite a long time and I just switched over to Debian. I'm excited about learning all its features (particularly the cool package management program). A friend helped me install Debian 2.2 (potato) and we got everything up and running fine. I

local printer ? i dunno

2000-10-03 Thread David Erdman
been having loads of problems getting a printer to work in debian. i keep getting this. i have apsfilter loaded right now (as opposed to magicfilter)...and lpr. the printer is an hp 4L laserjet. i am using printtool to configure everything. here is the error? i am getting. either way th

Newbie - help with mouse

2000-10-03 Thread Casey Henderson
Hello, I'm a new Debian user. I have used Redhat for quite a long time and I just switched over to Debian. I'm excited about learning all its features (particularly the cool package management program). A friend helped me install Debian 2.2 (potato) and we got everything up and running fine. I

RE: newbie xdm and gnome problems

2000-10-03 Thread Ray Percival
I also would like to know how to make it boot to a console instead of xdm. I know I can switch to a console but like, RH, is there anywhy to boot straight to a console? -- Original Message -- From: "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 03 Oc

gnome won't start now

2000-10-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
*sigh* I'm back to using icewm now, not that there's anything wrong with that, but I'm confused as to why I can't get gnome to start. Reading the gnome-session manpages, it would seem that gnome expects a default session file, default.session, but it doesn't seem to be present in the gnome

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Re: OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 07:53:02PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > How about an SWT 8080 with 16K (circa 1977) as I recall. > Those were that days of CP/M, before Gates bought/stole it and named it dos. unfortunately, he bought qdos instead. cp/m was superior by almost all accounts. and qdos stands fo

Re: newbie xdm and gnome problems

2000-10-03 Thread cls-colo spgs
mv /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm /etc/rc2.d/dont_use_S99xdm hth. bentley taylor. // Trevor Ramoutar wrote: > I actually got Debian installed! Woohoo!!! However, how do I disable > xdm so that I can log in from the console? Also I seem to be using > WindowMaker, how do I switch to Gnome(which I'm sure

Re: Status of Libc6

2000-10-03 Thread David Z Maze
Joel Dinel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JD> What's the news on Libc6 ? I had to repartition my HD so I wiped JD> the whole thing. I'm going to reinstall potato tonite, but I'd JD> like to upgrade to woody. I use EXIM a lot. Is libc6 still causing JD> problems ? A reminder: Debian unstable is just t

Re: partitions and lilo

2000-10-03 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello?, Look again closely at my partition tables. I created ext2 partitions for each of my linux distros and seperate boots as well. The only thing shared here is my swap file by all the distros. So I have it as hda1=win98, hda12 through hda15 for my linux ROOT partitions. I think what

Re: Package List

2000-10-03 Thread Mike
Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > OK, I give up. On a "rpm" flavor of Linux I can do > a "rpm -qa" to get a list of ALL installed packages on > my system. What do I have to do to get a list of ALL > installed packages on Debian 2.2?? dpkg -l As this tends to be a long list, I usually do instead: dpk

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2000-10-03 Thread David Kronholm
Hi I'm a Linux newbie, and I've jut installed 2.0 on a PC. Everything went okay, except when I try to boot from the hard disk, it hangs at a

RE: Recompiling the same kernel

2000-10-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 04-Oct-2000 Joel Dinel wrote: > What precautions / tips would you guys (and girls) give to me if I want to > recompile 2.2.17 and cut down a lot of stuff ? Last time I did so, I backed > up the modules and system-map (or something like that). > as long as you leave a copy of the kernel and th

Re: newbie xdm and gnome problems

2000-10-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 09:15:22PM -0700, Trevor Ramoutar wrote: > I actually got Debian installed! Woohoo!!! However, how do I disable > xdm so that I can log in from the console? Also I seem to be using > WindowMaker, how do I switch to Gnome(which I'm sure I installed. . .). You can j

RE: newbie xdm and gnome problems

2000-10-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 04-Oct-2000 Trevor Ramoutar wrote: > I actually got Debian installed! Woohoo!!! However, how do I disable > xdm so that I can log in from the console? Also I seem to be using > WindowMaker, how do I switch to Gnome(which I'm sure I installed. . .). > control-alt-F[1-6] gets you to a con

Recompiling the same kernel

2000-10-03 Thread Joel Dinel
What precautions / tips would you guys (and girls) give to me if I want to recompile 2.2.17 and cut down a lot of stuff ? Last time I did so, I backed up the modules and system-map (or something like that). Thanks !

Re: Off Topic: mutt and threading

2000-10-03 Thread Mike
Sven Burgener wrote: > If I leave a mailbox having new mails, they become _O_ld. I don't > like this. Can this be changed so that mails stay _N_ew even when I > leave a mailbox and return to it later? I hated that too. Turns out that adding: set nomark_old to my ~/.muttrc was the magic needed. -

newbie xdm and gnome problems

2000-10-03 Thread Trevor Ramoutar
I actually got Debian installed! Woohoo!!! However, how do I disable xdm so that I can log in from the console? Also I seem to be using WindowMaker, how do I switch to Gnome(which I'm sure I installed. . .). Thanks in advance. Trev

RE: Status of Libc6

2000-10-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 04-Oct-2000 Joel Dinel wrote: > What's the news on Libc6 ? I had to repartition my HD so I wiped the whole > thing. I'm going to reinstall potato tonite, but I'd like to upgrade to > woody. I use EXIM a lot. Is libc6 still causing problems ? > all if well in woody land, for now

Status of Libc6

2000-10-03 Thread Joel Dinel
What's the news on Libc6 ? I had to repartition my HD so I wiped the whole thing. I'm going to reinstall potato tonite, but I'd like to upgrade to woody. I use EXIM a lot. Is libc6 still causing problems ? Thanks !

Re: Can not allocate colormap

2000-10-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:29:18PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I can not see how that can rectify the situation. I get this problem > without netscape or any other colour intensive application running. What colour depth are you running? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Samba problems

2000-10-03 Thread Alec Smith
Doing what you suggested seems to have cleared everything up. The extra tidbit to get the permissions more "correct" is also appreciated and reflected in my updated smb.conf. Thanks for the info. Alec On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:39:12PM -0400, Alec Smith

RE: XDM question

2000-10-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 04-Oct-2000 The Techgod wrote: > I have XF86 3.3.6, Gnome, with windowmaker as my windowmanager. The XDM > starts at boot. My question is ..How do I customize the look of XDM?( > like a custom background for the logon screen). Or better, is there a > better program than XDM for the graphical

XDM question

2000-10-03 Thread The Techgod
I have XF86 3.3.6, Gnome, with windowmaker as my windowmanager. The XDM starts at boot. My question is ..How do I customize the look of XDM?( like a custom background for the logon screen). Or better, is there a better program than XDM for the graphical login. Like maybe one that has a menu to

xdm problems

2000-10-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Well, I upgraded enlightenment, and then at the xdm prompt, it refused to let me in. I rebooted into single-user mode (I had to hit the reset button!!), removed the xdm symlink for runlevel 2 and booted again (considering that it let me login as root in single-user mode...). Let me in fine. So

Re: OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Leone
>Those were that days of CP/M, before Gates bought/stole it and named it dos. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Gates never bought/stole CP/M. MS-DOS v1 was NOT CP/M; it was a separate product. >I do have a router running on a 386sx w/12 Meg of Ram but that is old >hat to anyone who has seen the Linux Router Proje

problems with gnome

2000-10-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Ok, so I install windowmaker, and chose it in the gnome control panel. It's listed as my current WM. However, I'm in enlightenment. ?? I don't think the control-panel is all that accurate on the matter... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a

Re: OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long) Date: Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:23:16PM -0400 In reply to:Jim Lisi Quoting Jim Lisi([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > > Erin Lewy wrote: > > > Okay. Here's the deal. The poor machine was an ANCIENT P75 running (I >

Re: Package List

2000-10-03 Thread Chris Gray
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:49:59PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:46:59PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > > OK, I give up. On a "rpm" flavor of Linux I can do > > a "rpm -qa" to get a list of ALL installed packages on > > my system. What do I have to do to get a li

Re: partitions and lilo

2000-10-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Installing into the same partition is not a simple thing to do. (Need special script to rearrange directory structure and possibly several initrd images I think. This is more complicated than making a distribution. Why bother.) Everyone usually install each distro to a partition and mount other

Re: problems with festival

2000-10-03 Thread Chris Gray
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 09:18:28AM -0400, Jim Ziegler wrote: > I am having the following problem: > > bash-2.03$ g++ -o voxmail -g -lodbc -lFestival -lestbase -lestools -lestbase > -leststring -lncurses voxmail.o Subscriber.o TelephoneNumber.o SQL_Database.o > VMessageStore.o MyTime.o Lookup.o

Re: Off Topic: mutt and threading

2000-10-03 Thread Chris Gray
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 11:06:38PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > > If I leave a mailbox having new mails, they become _O_ld. I don't > like this. Can this be changed so that mails stay _N_ew even when I > leave a mailbox and return to it later? unset mark_old #in your .muttrc of course Cheers,

Re: Samba problems

2000-10-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:39:12PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > I'm noticing that if I copy some files from Windows NT onto my Samba > server I end up with the wrong permissions. Instead of files being owned > by alec.mp3 as I'd like, they appear to be owned by root.mp3. > > 97153 drwxr-sr-x2

Re: gpg keys

2000-10-03 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 12:19:44AM +0200, Van Buggenhaut wrote: > A problem recurrently happens on my computer : > > I have 2 public keyrings : ... I very recently noticed this. If you put the writeable keyring last it works. Enjoy Christian

Off Topic - procmail

2000-10-03 Thread cwaiken
Since posting to this and other news groups, I am being spammed to no end by what appears to be "Chinese" and "Japanese" sites. Is there a "simple" procmail recipe to toss this garbage in /dev/null? --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaik

gpg keys

2000-10-03 Thread Van Buggenhaut
A problem recurrently happens on my computer : I have 2 public keyrings : one is ~/.gnupg/public.pgp the other is /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.pgp which was installed by debian-keyring package. When someone send me a signed message, the signature, if it's not on my keyring, can't be veri

OT: howto create upload account w ProFtpd

2000-10-03 Thread Frederik
Hi, Sorry for the off-topic question, but I was wondering how I can create an upload only account with ProFTPd? Now, I've made a user upload, with password, but that does not seem to be the most secure thing to do to me (since the password will be rather obvious, so everyone would get full user ac

ess1868

2000-10-03 Thread Wayne Sitton
I have a PIII 500mhz. with a voodoo3, 128 meg of ram, and an ess1868 soundcard. I've got everything working fine except the soundcard. So first, is that sound card linux compatible? when I tried to load a sound module during the installation, I couldn't find a module for the 1868, so I installed

Olicom NIC Card

2000-10-03 Thread Dreiling, Darryl
Anyone know how I can find a driver for an Olicom Ethernet PCI/II 10/100 OC-2326 NIC card. Regards, Darryl Dreiling Galileo International (303) 397-6086 This message is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete it from your system. You should n

Re: /dev/video: Operation not permitted

2000-10-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sounds like the driver may not be loaded right. havent been following the thread but what kind of device are you trying to use on /dev/video and what drivers are loaded to use it ? nate On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Erik van der Meulen wrote: e.van. >On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 20:12:45 +0200, Jens P. Elsner

Re: Package List

2000-10-03 Thread William Jensen
dpkg -l Wm On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:46:59PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > OK, I give up. On a "rpm" flavor of Linux I can do > a "rpm -qa" to get a list of ALL installed packages on > my system. What do I have to do to get a list of ALL > installed packages on Debian 2.2?? > > -- > -

Package List

2000-10-03 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
OK, I give up. On a "rpm" flavor of Linux I can do a "rpm -qa" to get a list of ALL installed packages on my system. What do I have to do to get a list of ALL installed packages on Debian 2.2?? -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaike

Re: Off Topic: mutt and threading

2000-10-03 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 11:06:38PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:23:20PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > what if you also want the mailboxes displayed in date order? > > > > there may be another way, but here's how i did it: > > > > % alias m 'mutt -y -e "push Od"'

Re: ISP modem connection

2000-10-03 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > commands. This is my modem log under windows: <...> > 09-11-2000 02:52:45.70 - Initializing modem. > 09-11-2000 02:52:45.70 - Send: AT > 09-11-2000 02:52:45.72 - Recv: AT > 09-11-2000 02:52:45.72 - Recv: OK > 09-11-2000 02:52:45.72 - Interpreted respon

Re: Samba problems

2000-10-03 Thread Alec Smith
Your Samba machine does have a [Printers] share, right? If that share is there, I'm not sure what's wrong. I'm by no means a Samba god... :( On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Alberto Pereira wrote: > Yes, > the samba is rigth configured but the printer not appears in the windows > net box!! > :( > All other

Re: Samba problems

2000-10-03 Thread Alberto Pereira
Yes, the samba is rigth configured but the printer not appears in the windows net box!! :( All others folders appears in the net windows box. On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Alec Smith wrote: Can the Windows machine see other shares on the Samba machine? On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Alberto Pereira wrote: > The p

Re: ISP modem connection

2000-10-03 Thread Christoph Simon
[...] > These are the last lines of my /var/log/syslog: > Oct 3 04:12:35 colorado pppd[664]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 > Oct 3 04:12:36 colorado chat[665]: abort on (BUSY) > Oct 3 04:12:36 colorado chat[665]: abort on (NO CARRIER) > Oct 3 04:12:36 colorado chat[665]: abort on (VOICE) >

Re: Samba problems (fwd)

2000-10-03 Thread Alberto Pereira
The problem is the windows system not found the printers! I use potato with samba2.0.7-3 On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Alec Smith wrote: I use the default Samba printers share, and then the standard method of mapping the network printers on my Windows machine. There's nothing special to printing from Wind

Re: Off Topic: mutt and threading

2000-10-03 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:23:20PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:11:21PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > > When I change into debian-user folder I have to always use o t for sort by > > thread. There has to be a way that I can tell mutt to always use threaded > > mode? >

Re: partitions and lilo

2000-10-03 Thread csj
Now how did you manage to install FOUR different distros? I tried installing two (Mandrake + Storm, a debian derivative). While I was able to run stuff like Gnome (practically the whole bunch I guess), I ran into module loading problems. My Storm installation kept looking for the Mandrake modules.

Re: 2.4.0-test kernels?

2000-10-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Can anyone provide some info on how to get working with a 2.4 kernel? > I need to switch so I can get my scsi card working with raid support. > Other than the kernel, I'd prefer to have

[very OT] Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:21:31PM -0400, Anderson, TimTL33E wrote: > > > > Luxury. When I were a lad I had to run a webserver on a ZX81, > > without even a 16K RAM Pack. I 'ad to load all me data from C90 > > audio tapes and play'e

Re: 2.4.0-test kernels?

2000-10-03 Thread Jeff Lessem
In your message of: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 15:44:31 CDT, you write: >Can anyone provide some info on how to get working with a 2.4 kernel? About a month ago I started running 2.4-testX on an otherwise potato system. I had to upgrade modutils, nfs-common, and nfs-kernel-server to make things work. If

2.4.0-test kernels?

2000-10-03 Thread Damian Menscher
Can anyone provide some info on how to get working with a 2.4 kernel? I need to switch so I can get my scsi card working with raid support. Other than the kernel, I'd prefer to have everything as stable as possible. So far I've learned that I need to get an updated modutils, but that causes al

X-windows + Rage Fury Pro Vivo compatibility

2000-10-03 Thread Valentín Alba
Does anybody make X-windows run with ATI Rage 128 Pro with Debian 2.2? Even in VGA or SVGA mode? Thanks

ISP modem connection

2000-10-03 Thread romeu
Hi, I'm sorry the long mail, but I would have no way of describing my problem without it. I'm trying to connect to my ISP, using my Lucent Venus Voice Modem, since august, 2000. I made these things: - ISA PnP issues, with pnpdump --> isapnp.conf - setserial /dev/ttyS1 - the port whas detected as

Re: How to set Xserver resolution

2000-10-03 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:57:52AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > "Debian" == Debian Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Debian> You could set up an alias. HTH > > That doesn't work to well if you are starting X via gdm... > > Yes, you could alter /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, but this of

Re: Confused on iptables and ftp..yes still...

2000-10-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > My iptable rule: > > $IPT -A INPUT -p tcp ! --syn --source-port 20 --destination-port 1024:65535 > -j ACCEPT > > I read this as any packed that is not a --syn type from source 20 on the f

Re: partitions and lilo

2000-10-03 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, In response to a large number of replies, I'll send this via the deb-user list instead. Below are links to great reading and WHY I wasn't able to do what I originally tried. I did install 5 OS's tho, and left room for 2 more. I did run into the 1024 cylinder problem - anoying to say

pty for Linux

2000-10-03 Thread Paul D. Smith
Has anyone had a go at porting Dan Bernstein's "pty" program to Linux? The latest I found was Oct 1990, in the comp.unix.sources archives, and it's pretty out-of-date. There were a _LOT_ of configuration options, and it wasn't at all clear to me how best to handle them for a Debian installation.

Re: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:21:31PM -0400, Anderson, TimTL33E wrote: > > Luxury. When I were a lad I had to run a webserver on a ZX81, > without even a 16K RAM Pack. I 'ad to load all me data from C90 > audio tapes and play'em over t'phone to me users. surely, now.

Re: /dev/video: Operation not permitted

2000-10-03 Thread Erik van der Meulen
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 20:12:45 +0200, Jens P. Elsner wrote: > > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root6 Oct 3 17:19 /dev/video -> > > video0 > > > > Have I overlooked some obvious thing? > Yes. /dev/video is a symlink. :) > > how about you set the right permissions on /dev/video0 ? Th

Re: Konsole session switching...

2000-10-03 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, October 03, 2000, 5:37:33 AM, Noah wrote: > Heh, all these list newbies thinking you're asking about VT switching > don't realize that you've probably been on this list since before they > heard of Linux. 8^) Ungh, don't remind me. :)

Confused on iptables and ftp..yes still...

2000-10-03 Thread William Jensen
My iptable rule: $IPT -A INPUT -p tcp ! --syn --source-port 20 --destination-port 1024:65535 -j ACCEPT I read this as any packed that is not a --syn type from source 20 on the ftp server i'm hooking up to, destined to my pc port 1024:65535 jumps to ACCEPT here's a snip of my log files: Oct 3

Fax (hylafax)

2000-10-03 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi I am trying to use the hylafax (tkhylafax) program to send a fax but, whenever I try to send the fax (or the other comands faxstat, ...) it ask me for a password, and I do nor know what to do, I have already tried my own password, the root password, ... Can you help me? Tank you. (Notice that

RE: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Luxury. When I were a lad I had to run a webserver on a ZX81, without even a 16K RAM Pack. I 'ad to load all me data from C90 audio tapes and play'em over t'phone to me users. Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Erin Lewy wrote: > > Okay. Her

bind and address rewriting

2000-10-03 Thread Thomas Voss
Hello Phil, PB> > the UDP packet is masqueraded PB> > correctly and triggers the PPP dial-out to my ISP. But PB> > finally, the UDP packet gets dropped out there because no PB> > address rewriting is done for UDP packets PB> If no address rewriting is done you need to check your ipchains P

RE: Debian and compaq presario

2000-10-03 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, George Wright wrote: > Are there any card (pcmcia) type modems out there that anyone has had luck > w/using > the 2.2.17 kernel? Are any made that aren't so heavily "win"-driven? > > > -Original Message- > From: Francesco Bochicchio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent:

RE: Debian and compaq presario

2000-10-03 Thread George Wright
Are there any card (pcmcia) type modems out there that anyone has had luck w/using the 2.2.17 kernel? Are any made that aren't so heavily "win"-driven? -Original Message- From: Francesco Bochicchio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 11:37 PM To: debian-laptop@list

Re: Debian and compaq presario

2000-10-03 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 02:07:53PM -0500, Daniel E. Baumann wrote: > On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Francesco Bochicchio wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 01:29:21PM +0200, Olivier Billet wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > > > > > I've well installed --well, more or less : I just set the X server, some > > > c

Re: glibc dependencies problem

2000-10-03 Thread Pascal Hos
Thanks, that did the trick > I just had this problem, it's a pain but you don't have to rebuild your > entire system. > I think it's a bug but it is too low level for me to characterise very well. > > Anyway, this should help (it saved me from having to reinstall): > > http://lists.debian.org/d

RE: partitions and lilo

2000-10-03 Thread mike
The version of LILO that comes with potato doesn't have the 1024 cylinder limit anymore. I use it to boot 4 os . I am using a 13GB disc with 3 primary partitions and an extended partition. I have LILO in my last partition above 10GB. On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:50:20 -0400 , Anderson, Ti

Re: Off Topic: mutt and threading

2000-10-03 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:11:21PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > When I change into debian-user folder I have to always use o t for sort by > thread. There has to be a way that I can tell mutt to always use threaded > mode? you've got part of the answer. what if you also want the mailboxes disp

Re: /dev/video: Operation not permitted

2000-10-03 Thread Jens P. Elsner
> lrwxrwxrwx1 root root6 Oct 3 17:19 /dev/video -> > video0 > > Have I overlooked some obvious thing? Yes. /dev/video is a symlink. :) how about you set the right permissions on /dev/video0 ? jp

Re: Listing only the package names with dpkg?

2000-10-03 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 02:53:00PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/10/2000 (14:49) : > > Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I'm trying to list out all the packages I have installed on my system. > > >I can do a dpkg -l, but I only want the pac

Re: glibc dependencies problem

2000-10-03 Thread Kevin Krafthefer
I just had this problem, it's a pain but you don't have to rebuild your entire system. I think it's a bug but it is too low level for me to characterize very well. Anyway, this should help (it saved me from having to reinstall): http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0009/msg04260.html krafty P

Samba problems

2000-10-03 Thread Alec Smith
I'm noticing that if I copy some files from Windows NT onto my Samba server I end up with the wrong permissions. Instead of files being owned by alec.mp3 as I'd like, they appear to be owned by root.mp3. 97153 drwxr-sr-x2 alec mp3 4.0k Oct 3 13:28 ./ 32385 drwxr-sr-x3 ale

Mozilla M17-3 on Woody

2000-10-03 Thread RvB
Hi ... I tried Mozilla M17-3 on Woody (mozilla_m17-3_i386.deb) and when i want to start it, it says: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ mozilla Starting Mozilla Could not obtain CmdLine processing service [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ what does this mean? ... it also happened with an

Re: Onboard NIC problem

2000-10-03 Thread Jeff Green
Intel 8255x network cards are better known as Ether Express Pro, to get multiple processors you need to use a multiple processor kernel and if you think Linux flies on one processor watch it on 2!! On the bios on that motherboard you can have 32 irqs, which makes it much easier if you have oodles o

Re: Onboard NIC problem

2000-10-03 Thread Peter Wilke
Hi Matt, try the EtherExpress100 driver. You can compile this code directly into the kernel or load it as a module. The module name is eepro100.o. If you NIC won't be found after that, specify the appropriate parameters for irq and io. You should have a diskette whith a little DOS-Program on it.

OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Jim Lisi
Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Erin Lewy wrote: > > Okay. Here's the deal. The poor machine was an ANCIENT P75 running (I didn't > > Ancient, huh? How bout a 486 DX2 66, or a 486 DX4 100? That's what I have at > home as my firewall. :) > how about a 486DX-33? or a Kaypro II (bet you never heard of it!

/dev/video: Operation not permitted

2000-10-03 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I am trying to install a Webcam to my Debian 2.2 Laptop. I run kernel 2.2.17 and have installed the backport to get usb working. This seems to work. Also I have the camera operational and I have installed xawtv which (according to people who have done so) can be used to display the camera image. If

glibc dependencies problem

2000-10-03 Thread Pascal Hos
Hi, I tried installing the kde2 packages from the woody tree into my potato distribution and it seems to have upgraded the glibc. The install was faulty otherwise too. Some of the packages couldn't be configures due to independencies (not sure what failed anymore). Now I'm trying to get my system

Just had to share...

2000-10-03 Thread Erin Lewy
Well, I felt like posting this because it still baffles me and makes me laugh: a little snippet of some distro dick wars. ;) So as I was being dragged on board as this web server's co admin the question of upgrades came up and I voiced that if I was going to run anything on a server it would be De

modprobe problems

2000-10-03 Thread Chris Mason
I have a firewall using two rtl8139 cards, which I had to compile my own kernel to use. I have had probelms with uploading files through the firewall so I installed the kernel binary 2.2.17. I removed these cards and installed two linksys LNE100TX4 cards. The instructions with the card told me to u

Re: Onboard NIC problem

2000-10-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have Debian Potato 2.2 with Gnome running on this PC > with an on board NIC. > The motherboard is a PR440BX with 2 Ppro CPU's w/256 MB RAM > and 2 scsi drive's I have win 2000 on /dev/sda

Re: Onboard NIC problem

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Fedyk
Matt Grant wrote: > > I have Debian Potato 2.2 with Gnome running on this PC > with an on board NIC. > The motherboard is a PR440BX with 2 Ppro CPU's w/256 MB RAM > and 2 scsi drive's I have win 2000 on /dev/sda and Debian on /dev/sdb > Debian found the onboard Scsi Controller but not the NIC or 2

Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Fedyk
Christian Pernegger wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:14:01PM +, Erin Lewy wrote: > > > > So my question is, how do I set the static IP in such a way that it will > > actually > > work? Permanently? ;) A swift response would really be appreciated as I > > have > > to go deal with more

Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Fedyk
Erin Lewy wrote: > > Hi. Well here I am finally subscribed. Actually I've been reading selected > bits of the list for a while (ooh I wanted to join in on the why Debian vs > Redhat > thread...) because my BF is subscribed to this list and has been for a while > (Hi, Tom!) > Heh, why isn't he

Onboard NIC problem

2000-10-03 Thread Matt Grant
I have Debian Potato 2.2 with Gnome running on this PC with an on board NIC. The motherboard is a PR440BX with 2 Ppro CPU's w/256 MB RAM and 2 scsi drive's I have win 2000 on /dev/sda and Debian on /dev/sdb Debian found the onboard Scsi Controller but not the NIC or 2nd CPU the 2nd CPU isn't import

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